Author Archives: carmanmcbride

The answer…well, it’s COMPLICATED.  What’s my quick answer?  NO!! Or at least not the way our human nature makes us feel like we can. Feelings can be so overwhelming and seem SO true; they can completely overpower us! Our bodies, minds, and actions can all be controlled and manipulated by our feelings.We want to followContinue reading “Can I Trust My Anxious Thoughts and Feelings?”

When you are in a dark place….depression, grief, unending pain, it feels like a cloud follows you around. Those of you that have ever been there know what I mean. Everything you do is cloudy, and I do mean everything….A trip to the grocery store, being with friends or family, going to work, even aContinue reading “Raindrops”

Okay, let me start with this…I’m a human. God made us to have feelings. They are important, but gee whiz, they can be crazy out of control. When you are going through something devastating, you feel so many different things. Guilt, shame, hurt, betrayal, embarrassment, sadness, doubt….this list could go on AWHILE…If you don’t learnContinue reading “The Darkest Feelings and the End of Myself”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is not for you. It is for me. I am writing this for me. If God decides He wants to use it in your life, awesome (!!!), but it is for me. The reason? I am a scattered thinker that processes by writing. IContinue reading “Who am I?”